Government organisations must address key efficiency and integration challenges set down in strategic reviews such as the Gershon and Lyons reports.
IT professionals across the public sector are using Microsoft technology to meet these challenges in smart and innovative ways: for example, we have worked with Thames Valley Police to develop handheld mobile email devices for officers on patrol.
Find out more about our key government solutions on this page.

Solution MarketPlace

Microsoft's Partner Solution MarketPlace (PSMP) contains hundreds of proven ready-made solutions covering areas such as e-government, social services, healthcare and taxation. PSMP gives you the opportunity to benefit from existing solutions that can be configured to meet your requirements, reducing development costs and times, and helping you reach your goals more rapidly.

Local Authority Portal Solution

The Local Authority Portal Solution (LAPS) has been developed directly to meet the requirements most commonly associated with the provision of a local government website. The solution provides much of this core functionality out of the box to enable authorities to quickly establish transactional portals. Central to LAPS is the ability to provide consistent tools for all employees to contribute content to a portal and to build transactional services in a standard, cost-effective and speedy manner.

Cross Government Collaboration

Government is more complex and diverse than ever before. The need to collaborate and share services with other agencies is now imperative to the vision of connected government and the achievement of shared-service dependent outcomes.